I’m running Vista Enterprise on a T60 laptop and connect to my office using Cisco’s VPN client version 5.x . Lately I’ve been having problems with my DSL where it drops for about 15 seconds and then springs back to life (they’re sending me yet another modem to address the issue…). This is, of course, … Continue reading Your Cisco VPN drops and you can’t reconnect
I had the computer set up and it was showing fairly steady power consumption of around 220 watts. Again a little less than I expected. Turning off my smaller monitor drops the consumption by 19 Watts (s/b 34 Watts), the larger monitor by about 26 Watts (s/b 55 Watts). I’m going to disengage the power … Continue reading Kill A Watt EZ P4460 – Main Computer Results
In case you’re wondering what all those little silhouette icons are about, they are placeholders for folks with no avatar. An avatar is a graphical representation you provide to give others some kind of insight into who you are. In this largely anonymous “interworld” it can provide a way to let folks know that you’re … Continue reading Gravatars
In a word – Great! The iGolf neo is a compact GPS unit you can use while golfing to let you know how far away you are from the front, back and center of the green. The maps are downloaded from their website to which you subscribe for a modest fee. Once you’ve downloaded a … Continue reading iGolf neo – My latest gadget for Golf
I originally heard about “Woken Furies” on a “Tech Nation” podcast interview with author Richard K. Morgan. The universe he described sounded intriguing so I picked up the book last December and have been slowly reading it ever since. I don’t tend to rush through books I’m enjoying as I like them to last as … Continue reading Woken Furies by Richard K. Morgan
I had intended to let the Kill A Watt have a little more time with my hair dryer but I was having such gargantuan issues with my DSL today that I decided to turn off my whole computer system (UPS, Router, Modem, the works). Since this is such a rare event and, since I wanted … Continue reading Kill A Watt EZ P4460 – Hair drier Results
Beefeater fries are among the most difficult to do right. They’re either too cooked (burned) or limp and soul-less. But the Three Dollar Cafe Jr. (located on Old Milton Parkway about 1 1/2 miles East of Northpoint Parkway) always gets them right. Notwithstanding the fact that their Wings (boneless wings for me thank you) are … Continue reading Three Dollar Cafe Jr. Fries – Excellent Plus!
Went out for a late lunch, frustrated that my DSL is acting up (got a call into bellsouth and a bunch of logs showing it dropping like a rock throughout the morning) and decided to compound things by trying to get some gas as well. I finally found some at the 6th station I passed, … Continue reading No Gas here in Marietta (and my DSL service is terrible)
I’ve done a bit more tweaking, such as adding the somewhat more informative pagination at the bottom of this page (rather than just telling you “previous entries” you can see what’s actually in store for you). I’ve also added a little “Comments” link to the entries so you can see if there are any comments … Continue reading A few more updates on this blog
A rip-off of this YouTube video (Japanese, I think) with some captions added in, a Pink Floyd soundtrack dubbed over and the size of the asteroid stated as being 5 times larger, it is still *very* cool and very humbling to watch. Given that they’ve taken such liberties with the original I can’t say that … Continue reading It’s the End of the World as we Know it
